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! . Immigration From Italy to Present Different Problem After War.

CHICAGO. 111., Dec. 28 Immigration from Italy will present an altogether different problem after the war, according to Professor Ouldo Rossatl representing the Ministry of Agriculture and commerce in New York, who was recently in Chicago. "The problem here," Professor Guldo said, "will be not to obstruct immigration, but to attract it. America will not be able longer to depend on Italy for common labor, since the class which used to Immigrate will And work at home at good wages. "It will not be necessary for the' Italian government to frame laws to - prohibit emigration as has been proposed. The government can do something better and more effective. It can remove the principle cause which led the inhabitants of Southern Italy to migrate. They formed the larger part of those who came to America be- " fore the war. It will provide them at home those advantages they came here ' to obtain good wages and good con1 dltlons of living. V Professor Rossatl said to provide them the government had mapped out an extensive government agrarian - scheme which is bound to transform . the arid regions of the south into areas 1 of perpetual fertility. f Agricultural Needs. "Italy," Professor Rossatl contint ued, "already is renowned for inaugurating extensive irrigation syst terns. During the last fifty years the country has been the school of irrigation for all the rest of the world. France, India, Egypt and Australia have sent their best engineers to study its methods." , He explained how the solution of . the agricultural problem will put the . Italians In a condition of being able , to. live well in their own country, something which will reduce emlgratlon enormously. "To expand the irrigation system," Professor Rossatl went on, "America machinery will be needed. American material will be needed to build reservoirs. Turbines and dynamos will have to be furnished by America in large quantities and hundreds of thousands of metal pipes will be needed to carry the water to its destination. "In other words, once the entire irrigation system is established tho Italian cultivators will need modern agricultural machinery which will come largely from America. "On Its side Italy can send America fabrics of silk, fruit and food stuffs." Professor Rossatl believes that if America need3 Italian labor after peace has been declared, it can obtain it in Italy, something which will go to establish new industrial relations between the two countries. '

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM SATURDAY, DEC. 28, 1918.

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Conscientious Objectors to Prove Their Principles by Work in France

STATE BRIEFS

ANDERSON. The Madison county board of commissioners by a vote of 2 to 1, declared that Lewis E. Kimberlln, Republican, had been legally elected as superior judge of Madison county over Willis Ellis, Democrat, and It. S. Farmer. Socialist. The decision was the result of a contest filed by Mr. Kimberlin. in which he questioned the election of Ellis.

INDIANAPOLIS. Sumlay schools , of Indiana contributed in excess of $10,000 In Christmas offerings to the , relief of destitute Christians in tho Near East.

ANDERSON. Captain George B. Hockett, a lrading physician of Ander- ' son, died with the American forces or occupation in Germany on the banks of the Rhine, according to word received by the widow here. WEST BADEN. Private Clifford I.ovell, a wounded soldier at the army hospital here was married to Miss Adele Jungkind. Both are from Cincinnati, O. COVINGTON. Worth Reed, vicepresident of the Citizens bank of this city, with his father, long since dead, bears the novel distinction of having lived through all the administrations of the United States government, and every war in which this country has been Involved except the revolutionary war.

Willicmsbarg, Ind. W. K. Mikesell and family spent Christmas day with relatives in Lynn. Miss Ruth Smith of Richmond spent Christmas day with friends here. Mr. and Mrs. George Armstrong and sons James and Robert spent Christmas with M. J. and Marvin Cobine, near Fountain City Anna Plehe of Richmond has been spending her Christmas vacation with her parents here. . . . Mr. and Mrs. James Martin had as their Christmas guests, Dr. and Mrs. Martin of this place. Mr. and

Mrs. Clyde Martin and son Harry, and Norma Martin and wife of Morgan's Creek.... Mr. and Mrs. Justin Reynolds of near Richmond, and Thos. Reynolds of Lynn, called on W. T. Blair and wife Sunday Miss Edyth Smith of Dayton called on friends here Christmas eve Mrs. Charles Boyd called on Mrs. Wlnfleld Plehe Tuesday Ira V. Wooters and Miss Jessie Moorman of Fountain City, were united in marriage at the home of Leander Chamness of this place Christmas eve. Both young people are well known here and are highly esteemed. ....The Christmas entertainment given at the school house Tuesday was well attended and well enjoyed by all. Miss Hazel Hardrick and Anna Plehe called on Gladys Williams Sunday Cliff Duke has returned to the

Great Lakes training station after

sjjending Christmas with his mother,

rs. Ella Duke, or tnis place.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 28. Reconstruction work in France has been started by American Quakers in the two sectors where American armies put the finishing touches to the Invading Germans, and started the break that ended in the signing of an armistice dictated by the allies. In announcing that an actual start has been made on permanent reconstruction, social, material and agricultural, the American Friends service committee, with headquarters in this city, also has let it be known that the opportunity has now arrived for all conscientious objectors to prove, wherever possible, that they were not mere draft dodgers and that they are willing to accept their share or more than their share of a constructive program. A pamphlet outlining the work to be done under the direction of the committee and under supervision of French governmental authorities has been drawn up by leaders of Quaker reconstruction work who have been in France since shortly after the war started, working at first In conjunction with English Friends and later under the auspices of the American Red Cross. Although admltedly incomplete, it has been officially approved by the French government and hence provides one of the best outlines so far produced of just how many sided and varied is the problem known as reconstruction which is facing the world. Areas Assigned to American Friends. The areas assigned to American Friends are at Chateau Thierry, including about thirty villages, and from a little beyond Clermont-en-Ar-gonne, on the west to the left bank of the Meuse on the right, up to the edge of the town of Verdun. This sector includes more than forty villages. Including territory where some of the

bitterest fighting of the war took place, the restoration of its shellmarked farms means, according to men who know something about the proble, and who have been over the ground, a work of at least two years. Vet the tasks at Verdun and Chateau Thierry represent but a small part of the plans now being made for reconstruction by Quakers in the countries that have been invaded by the Germans or their allies. Wilbur K. Thomas, executive secretary of the service committee, has announced that work units will be sent to Serbia, Roumania, Armenia and other regions devastated and depopulated by the Turks, and when possible to Russia. About 300 men and women are now at work in France. Some of them went over before America got into the war. Others have been sent from time to time a3 passports could be obtained for them. Some months ago an agreement was reached with tho war departent under which conscientious objectors in the military training cantonments were to be parceled to the committee either for reconstruction work in France or agricultural work at home. Of these men some 300 are now awaiting the call of the committee and passports, forty being under training at a farm near this city. Since long before peace was in sight the Friends have been planning to increase the Bcope of their reconstruction work. On the day America celebrated the signing of the armistice with Germany Dr. Isaac Sharpless, former president of Haverford college, who has been publicity secretary of the service committee, started a three month's tour of Friends communities in this country to get additional financial and personal strength that will be needed to carry out the committee's plans. Now Comes the Real Test. Friends believe that the principles to which most of them have held during the war are now about to be put to the real test. They hold that if conscientious objectors leave it to others to alleviate the misery caused by war they will by that inaction admit the insincerity of their professions. In unselfish reconstruction work they see a spiritual opportunity greater than any that the followers of Penn have ever had. The report now made public by the service committee outlining what is to be done at Verdun shows that a thorough study has been made of the problem. Inquiries have been sent out to more

than 3,000 refugees by the French government, it is revealed in the pamphlets prepared by the Friends,

asking whether or not they wish to return to their home villages. Only 5 ; per cent answered in the negative. This will mean that in the Verdun region from 2,000 to 2,500 families must be cared for. It has been estimated that to provide one family with the minimum of furniture, linen and garden seeds will cost about $250. On this basis the serivce committee has been asked by its workers in France to place orders for 1,000 families at once. They have also asked for an appropriation of 1,000,000 francs for medical work. Costs of buildings and agricultural machinery will be borne by the French government. Preparing for Refugees. Few of the refugees from this or other .regions have been able to do more than keep alive since their flight before the invading Hun. "That these families cannot all return at once is obvious," says the service committee. "Their return must be gradual, methodical, scientific. To make this return as comfortable and as rapid as possible, there will be placed at the disposal of the refugees two large buildings, or centers of reception, on the edge of our district. It is estimated that nearly 100 families can be quartered in each of these buildings. It will be a shifting population, moving on as the reconstruction allows. "It i3 from these centers that the first thorough survey of the liberated country will take place. The notables of such and such a village will be first asked to lodge here and make a thorough inspection of the commune. They will ascertain how many houses are completely destroyed, how many can still be repaired, and to what extent the land is fit for immediate recultivation. In fact, they will make an estimate as to how many people, if any, can be allowed to return at once. Houses and Hut to Go Up Quickly. "Then there will be invited to the center of reception the carpenters, the masons, joiners and able bodied persons from the village, who can get to work at once on their old commune. Very often it will be found that the families of these men will wish to come with them, and in this cas they can be housed at these centers, while the school teachers of the village can also stay there and bu6y themselves with the instruction of the children. Nothing should be more invigorating to those ret urning to an old commune than that they should be able to take some part in the rebuilding of their own home. It might be possible to devise some means by which houses could be run up more quickly and slightly better, but to a population suffering inevitably from a weakened morale no method of arousing their personal interest and enthusiasm should be neglected. "Every sort of house in every sort of material will probably come in useful, among others the wooden huts

which are being constructed in the

workshops of the mission at Dole and Ornans for future use, and also a considerable number which, have been

ordered elsewhere by the departmental authorities. The mission also hopes to help in the organizations of

building concrete houses as rapidly and cheaply as possible, with all the latest labor saving devices, which will allow a large use of the debris of the old vilages.

"The department will be able to

hand over to our area 150 wooden huts as soon as military operations and transportation facilities permit. Further, the workshops of the mission at present instead in the southeast of France can with their present staff

j turn out. from seven to ten huts a

week and they will soon be concentrat-

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ed on preparing huts for the Verdun area alone. If the scheme of building concrete huts is accepted it is estimated that 200 unskilled workmen, for the most part French, with about twenty skilled or semi-skilled supervisors, could construct "on an average four houses a day and at a figure far lower than the present cost of wooden huts, so great Is the rise in the price of . these latter materials. The de

partmental authorities are at present

making arrangements for experiments In concrete and similar forms of con

struction. "The rebuilding of the district in

concrete huts with a regular supply of

wooden huts, in so far as they are forthcoming, would take about two years. This is probably, roughly, the'

period over which the total reinstallation of the inhabitants will in any case have to extend owing to the destruction of the soil, presence of barbed wire, trenches and other obvious difficulties. In the region somewhat behind the the actual battlefront the land will not have been sufficiently destroyed to render necessary a complete change in the occupation of the people. But they will be forced to abandon the excessive individuality that marked their agriculture before the war. Even then their methods resulted in great loss. Every cultivator

aimed at being completely independent, with all his own machinery, buildings and equipment, even when the extent of his land was small. "But the government has seen that, with the shortage of machines that will inevitably follow the war, this independence must give way to a certain amount of communal responsibility. It Is obviously impossible to supply every returning cultivator with the two or three plows he possessed before the war. The commune must therefore be willing to go in for motor plowing, and as individuals can not each afford to buy a tractor, the commune will have to form Itself into a cooperative society for this purpose. The government, foreseeing this, has prepared new legislation to the effect that any farmers forming themselves Into a co-operative association can borrow money from the government at 1 per cent. Further, it will sell machinery to communes, as opposed to individuals, at special rates. All this will be rendered easier by the fact that many of the old landmarks, which divided off one little strip from another and made it practically impossible to do anything on a large scale, have been destroyed so that it may be possible to rearrange the land on a more reasonable basis. Quakers and Poilus Side by Side. "But no government legislation can ever be a really practical success, unless the conservatism and suspicion of the farmers is removed. The farmers of these parts have never seen a motor plow, and even a binder is of comparatively recent adoption, so it mar be easilv seen that thev will not

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always take kindly to ne wniethods and new machinery. Here our workers, many of whom have been all their lives accustomed to these machines, will be of great service, for they will be able to prove their practicability by the only convincing method, that of personal demonstration. When we wish to encourage the returning inhabitants to throw themselves into the new problems that await them, we shall soon see that the most effective way of doing so is by working side by side with them on their own plot of ground. "Though their original outlay will be great, yet owing to a large proportion of the money being repayable, not only can the same money be used more than once for whatever may appear most useful at the time, but the mission will have a considerable sum of money in hand when it finally leaves the district. It is not for us to dictate what is to be done with this sum, but an admirable opportunity will present itself of making a permanent gift 'to the department, either by th institution or an experimental farm, with agricultural scholarships toward which we have already received a gift of machinery and tools, or by the education of orphans of the war in this district. By this means we could connect this region with the Society of

Friends, when the hopes and horrors of this war are becoming half forgotten, and what is more important, leave a permanent message of sympathy to France from America."

Greensfork , Ind. Elizabeth Jay, of Webster, spent

1 Thursday with Martha Alice Teasell. .'...Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Strlckler and baby Evelyn Pauline entertained at. dinner Phristmns dnv. Dinner was

served to the following guests: Mr. and Mrs. Harry Rlnehart and children Charles and Audra, Mrs. Amanda King, George King, Mrs. Iucy Jewiss of Richmond, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Strickler, Mr. and Mrs. Everett Root and children Sylvia and Arnum, of Hagerstown, Mr. and Mrs. Linnie Fouts and daughter Nellie, Mr. and Mrs. Harry King, Sarah Bane and Influenza cases wehe reported Friday, Mrs. Thomas Gunckle, Mr. and Mrs. Withworth...,. Miss Flossie -Neff is slowly Improving.., ..John Ellis received a letter from his brother Francis, who is in the navy hospital at Philadelphia, stating that he was slowly improving but his throat is still very bad... The union meeting, which was to bo held at the Friends church Sunday evening has been called off. ....Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Pierce entertained at dinner Christmas, day Mr. and Mrs. Walter Henicul and children Edna, May, Lillian and Margaret, of Sugar Grove, Mr. and Mrs. Luther Wilson of Hagerstown, Miss Effie Wilson of Economy and Edward Pierce...

Certain scientists claim to have discovered that a fat resembling cocoanut oil can be obtained from plant3 growing abundantly on waste lands.

Mr. and. Mrs. Earl Gilbert and daughter Betty Jane, of Richmond, spenl Christmas with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hatfield.. .Mr. and Mrs. Hatfield entertained at dinner Christmas day. Hazel and Harry Hatfield, of Dayton and Mr. and Mrs. ElrSn Benson.

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